The Word Behind Bars and the Paradox of Exile

Beschreibung

Beschreibung

This study grew out of a workshop at Northwestern University organized in 1994 by the Institute for Advanced Study and Research in the African Humanities. The book offers a perspective on conditions of literary production in many parts of Africa today.

Portrait

Kofi Anyidoho is a poet, literary scholar, and a specialist in African and African-heritage literatures. He is a senior faculty member of the Department of English and the acting director of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, Legon.